English
accurate
Accurate comes from Latin accūrātus ‘prepared with care’, from accūrō ‘to take care of’, from cūrō ‘to care for’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcūrō‘care for’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaccūrō‘to take care of’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaccūrātus‘prepared with care’perfect passive participle of accūrō
- Englishearliest quotation 1625accurate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcūrō‘care for’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaccūrō‘to take care of’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaccūrātus‘prepared with care’perfect passive participle of accūrō
- Englishearliest quotation 1625accurate
Earliest quotation: 1625, Bacon: “for that is the fume of those, that conceive…”
A compound of cūra + accūrō ‘to take care of, do something with care,…’
Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- ‘to see’
Proto-Italic *kʷoizā ‘care’
Latin cūra
Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- ‘to see’
Proto-Italic *kʷoizā ‘care’
Latin cūra
Latin cūrō ‘to arrange, see to, attend to, take care of, look after, ensure, tend to’
Latin accūrō ‘to take care of, do something with care, attend or give attention to’
first attested First attested in 1610 (as stated in the etymology)
The story
First attested in 1610.
Linked words
through Latin cūrō ‘care for’
Today it means
adj Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cūrō / accurate